1146: The Best Trap Building Exercises, Techniques to Break Through Lifting Plateaus, Favorite Gym Machines & MORE
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about their favorite machines, how to grow traps, exercises or techniques to overcome a plateau and increase the weight you’re able to lift, and one bad habit they are working on.
- Mind Pump x Nutritional Coaching Institute have partnered up! The importance of effective communication and combating the poor information by ‘Insta’ coaches. (5:20)
- Sal is down with the thickness! (12:52)
- The guys recap their extended trip to Tahoe. The value of unplugging/scheduling time away to cultivate creativity and become more effective at what you do. (16:24)
- The benefits of having a home gym and the freedom it provides you. (24:30)
- What are Mind Pump’s go-to Halloween movies? (30:33)
- The beginning of the end of the war on drugs: Chicago becomes the next city to decriminalize psychedelic plants. (34:40)
- How taking creatine may fight cancer. (38:14)
- What makes someone charismatic? (40:28)
- #Quah question #1 – Despite you guys not loving machines, what is your favorite machine and why? (42:33)
- #Quah question #2 - How do I grow my traps? (50:14)
- #Quah question #3 – When you hit a plateau with your deadlift, what exercises or techniques can you implement to help overcome the plateau and increase the weight you’re able to lift? (55:32)
- #Quah question #4 – What's one bad habit you are working on or would like to work on? And what’s one bad habit you are just not that concerned about? (1:03:17)
People Mentioned
- Jason Phillips (@jasonphillipsisnutrition) Instagram
- Joe DeFranco (@defrancosgym) Instagram
- Robert Oberst (@robertoberst) Instagram
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- October Promotion: MAPS Anabolic ½ off!! **Code “RED50” at checkout**
- DISCOVER! Why Mind Pump Media and NCI Are Partnering To Give You This Ridiculous Nutritional Coaching Bundle ($6500 Value) For FREE!!!
- Visit PRx Performance for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout**
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- IIFYM - Counting Your Macros Is F*CKING Up Your Health!! | Nutrition Facts + Advice (Jason Phillips)
- Chicago Follows Oakland, Introduces Resolution to Decriminalize Psychedelic Plants
- Creatine powers T cells' fight against cancer
- What Makes People Charismatic, and How You Can Be, Too
- MAPS Strong | MAPS Fitness Products - Mind Pump
- Rubberbanditz Resistance Band Set
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of The Mind Pump, so look in this episode, we answer questions from listeners like you who post questions on our Instagram page. |
| 0:22.0 | But we also talk about current events, our lives, and the people that we partner with. |
| 0:27.0 | That's in the intro portion of this episode. |
| 0:30.0 | So here's what we talked about for the first 37 minutes, the intro portion. |
| 0:33.0 | We talked about our new partner, nutrition coaching institute. |
| 0:38.0 | This is the company owned by our good friend Jason Phillips. |
| 0:41.0 | It's a phenomenal place you can go if you're a coach and you want to become an online coach. |
| 0:46.0 | You want to be a better online coach to learn how to work with nutrition with your clients. |
| 0:51.0 | But here's the deal. We got you, we're going to give away actually two people, a free scholarship. |
| 0:57.0 | So here's how you apply, go to applywithnci.com forward slash mind pump fill out the form. |
| 1:04.0 | And two of you this month will win a nutritional coaching bundle scholarship valued at over $6500. |
| 1:13.0 | Then we talked about beef cake season. |
| 1:16.0 | This is this is the season of bulking apparently. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm getting a little heavy. I'm getting thick. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, thickness about you says a lot of seas there. |
| 1:25.0 | Then we talked about our trip to Tahoe. That was a lot of fun. |
| 1:28.0 | Adam talks about how he went fishing and caught fishes. |
| 1:32.0 | Good times. |
| 1:33.0 | We talked about PRX. |
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